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    "id": 1157080,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Wilberforce Oundo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. As I was indicating, the Bill is fairly comprehensive and it contains issues that I had been told to come and articulate on this Floor. I have mentioned a few. As I continue, when we go to Clause 6 of the Bill, it says that every child shall have a right to a name, a nationality and as far as possible, the right to know and be reared by their parents. The boy-child has sent me. The men who are still in the business of having children like some of my colleagues here and outside there have said that there has been so many cases of fraudulent claims by mothers in so far as parenthood or fatherhood of the child is concerned. Therefore, there has been a request, and I hope the committee handling the Bill is listening. There has been a request that before the child is given a name, which naturally in a patriarchal society like ours, will bear the name of the father, biological fatherhood must be established beyond reasonable doubt. I have been told that that can only be established by way of DNA. So, at the Committee of the whole House, we will have to make an amendment to ensure that before a name is given, the right to know who the father or mother is granted and there must be a scientific process to prove biological motherhood or biological fatherhood. There have been so many jokes all over the place. There has been an advert going round that why waste 18 years of school fees if you can spend Kshs18,000 to save you the 18 years of school fees."
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